When the property is paid off in 15 years, I will have the choice of 1) Enjoy the 'bumped up' cash flow of about $1200 per month 2) Do a 'refinance' or 'cash out' of say 180K on a now 240K property and let the renters ALSO pay that off for me or 3) Sell the property outright for 240K. 

How was your first choice not burning the place down and starting fresh? 

That is powerful marketing reach that I don't think any individual seller has.

Is it worth installing smarter technology in each individual unit? 

Question for anyone who's used Amica to write policy's on more than one property.Our current setup, has unique policys on each SFH.I'm toying with moving to one main policy from Amica, with each SFH as a extended poli...

This answer should continue to drive your choices as you invest.

If you do, and it doesn't specify that it's only if they find you the deal, then legally, you have no choice but to use them for the purchase.

It really depends on the individual property.

You find out that this individual, or perhaps both, used to be drug users.

Are you looking around for a networking group to learn more about investing in real estate or are you looking for an actual mastermind group made up of high net worth individuals (most likely millionaires or more) who meet to talk about the economy and their tstrengths and threats to their businesses and how they plan to address those threats as they continue to grow.